Comment by dx87

From what I've gathered, the developers don't work for Tidelift in any capacity, Tidelift just collects money on their behalf whether they want it or not. If you agree to Tidelift's terms, you get a portion of the money they collected. I still don't see how they're helping open-source developers though. They keep saying that it'll be easier for big corporations to have a single place to pay, but they're going to take a huge chunk of the money for themselves instead of giving it to the developers, and the amount the developers get is based on some secret formula. I really don't see how this benefits anyone except themselves and big corporations wanting to say that they're helping OSS, but not really caring where the money goes.